[#bsl-allocator-0df-allocate]
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Return a block of memory having sufficient size and alignment to hold the specified `n` objects of `value_type`, allocated from the memory resource held by this allocator. Optionally specify a `hint`, which is ignored by this allocator type but theoretically used by other allocators as an aid for optimizing locality.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_bslallocator.h>`

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[[nodiscard]]
xref:bsl/allocator-0df/pointer.adoc[allocator<TYPE>::pointer]
allocate(
    xref:bsl/allocator-0df/size_type.adoc[size_type] n,
    void const* hint = 0);
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== Return Value

[NOTE]
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The return value https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/attributes/nodiscard[should not be discarded^].
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